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How Brain Injury Impacts Your Daily Life: Left vs. Right Brain

Brain injuries can impact daily life depending on whether the left or right side of the brain is injured. Injuries to the left side can cause difficulties with language skills like speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension as well as impair logic and sequencing. Injuries to the right side are more likely to impact spatial awareness, attention, memory, and perception of visual information, faces, and abstract concepts while potentially altering emotion and creativity. The side of the brain injured determines how functions may be impacted.

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How Brain Injury Impacts Your Daily Life: Left vs. Right Brain

Brain injuries can impact daily life depending on whether the left or right side of the brain is injured. Injuries to the left side can cause difficulties with language skills like speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension as well as impair logic and sequencing. Injuries to the right side are more likely to impact spatial awareness, attention, memory, and perception of visual information, faces, and abstract concepts while potentially altering emotion and creativity. The side of the brain injured determines how functions may be impacted.

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How brain injury

impacts your daily life LEFT VS. RIGHT BRAIN

LEFT SIDE RIGHT SIDE


Speaking Organizing information
Reading Abstract meaning
Writing Context
Listening Spatial relationships
Grammar (like map reading or shape recognition)
Number skills Visual information
Computation skills Face recognition
Analyzing information Intuition
Reasoning Emotion
Logic Imagination
Sequential thinking Detecting motion
Time awareness Music & art awareness
Controls right side of body Controls left side of body

INJURIES ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN CAN CAUSE: INJURIES ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN CAN CAUSE:
Difficulty understanding spoken & written language Impairments in attention
Difficulty expressing spoken & written language Left neglect
Changes in speech Memory issues
Verbal memory issues Decreased awareness of deficits
Impaired logic Loss of “big picture” thinking
Sequencing difficulties Altered creative or music perception
Changes in speech

CONTACT US: constanttherapy.com T 1-888-233-1399 E [email protected] TLC_MM1043, Rev 2

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